At the outer gate of the Galactic Core Sector, a blinding wall of white-gold diamond light stretched across five hundred light-years of deep space.
It was three miles thick, ten million miles tall, and covered in one hundred and eight layers of glowing immortal runes.
To build this Diamond-Rune Blockade Wall in a single night, the 108 Ancient Sects had emptied half their emergency war vaults. Ten trillion top-grade Spirit Stones had been melted down and poured into the core of seven crushed diamond planets, creating a barrier so hard that even a wandering neutron star would bounce right off it.
On top of the central watchtower of the Diamond Wall, Sect Master Shi Gang of the Diamond-Mountain Sect stood with his hands on his hips, laughing until his granite armor shook.
Behind him stood all 108 Sect Masters and five million elite coalition guards in shining spirit-armor.
“Look at this masterpiece!” Sect Master Shi slapped the gleaming diamond battlement under his boots. “Three miles of solid Rank 8 Star-Diamond, reinforced by 108 ancestral formation cores! Furthermore, I planted ten million Train-Derailing Spike Traps along the front face! If Pei Xuan’s yellow train dares to ram my wall at warp speed, the impact will flatten all ten thousand train cars into scrap iron!”
